Antisthenes Quotes

Those that vow the most are the least sincere.

Don't be afraid of enemies who attack you. Be afraid of the friends who flatter you.

It is better to fall among crows than flatterers; for those devour only the dead - these the living.

False praise is worse than no praise.

If you're going to think mean things about me or not be a true friend, then we don't need to be friends.

The love of their country is with them only a mode of flattering its master; as soon as they think that master can no longer hear, they speak of everything with a frankness which is the more startling because those who listen to it become responsible.

Bad faith likes discourse on friendship and loyalty.

He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander.

Truth made you a traitor as it often does in a time of scoundrels.

Knavery and flattery are blood relations.

I get a lot of people coming up to me and saying, 'I really hate you.' And they say it in the nicest possible way, and I accept it. It's the people who come up to you and say, 'I really liked your character. Man, he was right!' Those are the ones you worry about.

If I had any deadly secrets, I wouldn't still be alive.

The world of this is a load of crap. You get all these bloody people, so incredibly sycophantic.

Never trust a man who speaks well of everybody.

It was better to fall among crows than among flatterers; for that crows only devour the dead, but the flatterers devour the living.

There can scarcely be a more difficult thing than to play a double game. It is dangerous, and it is at times, a nice point to draw the distinction between such a game and dishonor.

Fakery in allegiance to the truth.

The silence of a treacherous man is to be feared even more than his words.

The crow bewailes the sheepe, and then eates it.

Twas never merry world Since lowly feigning was called compliment.

The bulls are my best friends." I translated to Brett. "You kill your friends?" she asked. "Always," he said in English, and laughed. "So they don't kill me.

Did you know that wherever you find fool's gold, real gold exists somewhere nearby? This also goes for relationships and friendships. Real gold is found in the heart. For every piece of fake gold that you discard, remember that true gold isn't too far.

Flattery is a juggler, and no kin unto sincerity.

His (Deschamps') complaint of court life was the same as is made of government at the top in any age: it was composed of hypocrisy, flattery, lying, paying and betraying; it was where calumny and cupidity reigned, common sense lacked, truth dared not appear, and where to survive one had to be deaf, blind, and dumb.

Some honorable men spend their whole life preparing for a supreme act of treachery